Should kids be taught how to think or should they be taught what to think?
2007-02-07 04:01:43 · 8 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The attempt to subvert science with creationist pseudo-science amounts to little more than a form of religious terrorism in the classroom, it wastes the teachers and the pupils time when there is little enough time already to cover legitimate science topics adequately.
2007-02-07 04:09:23 · update #1
How to think, which is why you should not be so frightened of letting them learn more than one theory. What is it you are so afraid of?
2007-02-07 04:04:56 · answer #1 · answered by cmw 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is a thin line many times between the two when it comes to subjects like mythology and religion. Those tend to be college level classes because we have found out that it takes time to be able to study without having to believe or think you have to believe. Teaching little ones the stories the wrong way and they will either believe because they are inclined to or believe they are bad people because they disagree.
Bible stories are important to learn as literature. It is just hard to find ways or people capable of doing so that does not involve insisting belief in them in many parts of the USA. Other mythologies and religions are also important to study, for the improvement of tolerance as well as literature.
The other problem, I believe, comes from fundamentalists that are so sure they have the only right way. Anything to the contrary is not allowed and any suggestion of teaching an opposing view point is offensive. These are usually the ones who scream the loudest and are the least willing to compromise.
2007-02-07 04:39:53 · answer #2 · answered by Moonsilk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an agnostic, I have to ask why do atheists confuse education with indoctrination? You are just as bad. You don't seem to realize that scientists cannot agree on the creation of the universe, how many dimensions we exist in or the exact workings of evolution. Yet you seem to know it all. And you have one viewpoint, your own, which you want forced upon school children. Education is teaching them to think for themselves. You deny them the right to think of anything that you consider to 'not exist'. That is indoctrination because you want them to think like you do.
2007-02-07 04:16:27 · answer #3 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both one is no good without the other. You shouldn't just leave them with nothing to think about. That is what teaching is all about. Teaching facts is not indoctrination. teaching facts is necessary in all walks of education.
2007-02-07 04:08:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on what your idea of education is. We feel that an understanding of the sciences, philosophy and the arts is education. They feel that an understanding of a being that may or may not exist is education.
Diff'rent strokes.
2007-02-07 04:05:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They should be taught facts founded on valid evidence-nothing more.
2007-02-07 04:05:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we all need love just think what the world would be like if we all loved one another
2007-02-07 04:07:08 · answer #7 · answered by nobody 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You and the false dichotomies.
2007-02-07 04:04:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋